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Nature our Friend

The aims of this project is to give the children knowledge of how to create a sustainable development and to promote the diversity and importance of ecological issues. Also developing the need of participating to the improvement of the environment , and how to diminish the process of harming nature and to contribute to its improvement. The children will learn about the necessity of loving and protecting nature. Booth children and teachers will have an active role in these activities and thus the phenomenon of delinquency may be diminished.
Participating schools will achieve a knowledge about different circumstances countries have about environmental issues, and it will promote a better understanding about the countries strategies how to handel it.
The cooperation will promote knoledge about different ways of teaching in preschool, by discussions and visits. That gives the participating teachers more competence, the cuality in the prescools increases and they will achieve a better understanding for preschools in outher countries in EU. The end product will show the activity of the project and make the children be aware of their ecological education, improve the civic quality in those directly participating to the project and in the population of the town.

Multilingual picture dictionary

Multilingual picture dictionary, audiovisual type (Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Romanian and English). The words were chosen by the children who also made the drawings for each chosen word.
Three designs: book; interactive file (audio-visual) and a plasticized/detachable copy (to be used by children).

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Teachers Portfolio

A book to be used by teachers which contains the methodology, the strategies, resources and other important elements related to the activities developed during the project. Each of the main activities had to focus on five development areas (Language, Math's, Sports, Arts and Science) and the portfolio contains a sum up/ selection of the strategies used by the teachers in the different participating countries.

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Comenius story

The story was created by all children participating in the project. The work started in Sweden and then each of the other countries continued the story previously written (the story followed the same order of the meetings held during the project). It was finished in Mantiegas, Portugal.
The final product was a story book written in English and illustrated by the participating children.

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Multilingual Audiovisual Dictionary

Multilingual picture dictionary, audiovisual type (Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Romanian and English). The words were chosen by the children who also made the drawings for each chosen word.
This audiovisual material was used by the Foreign Language Department during the European Language Week in Manteigas School Group.
The printed edition of the dictionary was offered to school libraries.

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Multilingual Picture Dictionary - Brochure

Multilingual picture dictionary, brochure type (Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Romanian and English). The words were chosen by the children in all partner schools who also made the drawings for each chosen word.
The audiovisual and print edition of the dictionary were offered to school libraries.

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"Friends Forever" - Comenius Story

The story was created by all children participating in the project. The work started in Sweden and then each of the other countries continued the story previously written (the story followed the same order of the meetings held during the project). It was finished in Manteigas (Portugal).
The final product was a story book written in English and illustrated by the participating children.
Each country will have an edition in their own language.

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Portfolio/Teachers' Book

A book to be used by teachers which contains the methology, the strategies, resources and other important elements related to the activities developed during the project. Each of the main activities had to focus on five developement areas (Language, Maths, Sports, Arts and Science) and the portfolio contains a sum up/selection of the strategies used by the teachers in the different participating countries.

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"Spider Week"- CD

It is a compilation of the activities developed during the "Spider week", theme studied/worked by all schools involved. The theme came up from the first meeting which was held in Sweden. There, all the participants had a field class abouit spiders.

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"Water Week" - CD

Compilation of the activities (and their results) held during the "Water Week", theme which was common to all schools.
During the "water week", the Portuguese teachers tried to focus on the theme using more innovative approaches. The activities held had the cooperation of children's parents. With the support given by the municipality board, dissemination was possible by joining a leaflet to the water bill which is monthly distributed to all inhabitants.

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"Tree Week" - CD

"The Tree" was a theme chosen for another thematic week. All partner schools had to plant two trees: an apple tree and a tree from each country/region.
During the "tree week", the time was taken to learn about Autumn traditons: grape harvest (the painting "Grape Harvest" by Goya gave the motto to develop the theme) and olive harvest.

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"Comenius Christmas"

Each country shared its Christmas traditions related to music, food, decoration and religious/pagan rituals.
Each school sent its partners a CD with a traditional song, the song "Silent Night" (sang in English and in the language of each country).
In Portugal, the results of all this work related to the traditions of the different countries was shown to the parents at the Pre-School Christmas Party.

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"Friends Forever" - Multimedia Show

Multimedia show open to all community. All schools that belong to Manteigas group of schools were present and took part in the show.
All partner schools were present and the show included dancing, music, gymnastics/sports and some multimedia presentations about the activities held during the project.

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The Portuguese Coordinator of the Project presented the work done under the ban "Nature Our Friend" and called the Teachers' and Pupils' attention to the importance of this kind of project.
The aim of the meeting was also to motivate teachers, pupils and community in general to this kind of project. The fact is that "mission was accomplished"! There is another Comenius project beginning soon.

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Come out spring!

On the backyard of our kindergarten we celebrated the arrival of the spring. We learned songs in the languages of our partners, and sang to them, because, they came on a visit at that time. We had workshops with different thematic.

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Event: Spring come to us

During our Comenius week in Slovenia we had an event: Spring come to us. In the backyard of our kindergarten we sang songs in foreign languages. And called spring with little bells that we made from waste material.

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Multilingual picture dictionary

Multilingual picture dictionary, audiovisual type (Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Romanian and English). The words were chosen by the children who also made the drawings for each chosen word.
Three designs: book; interactive file (audio-visual) and a plasticized/detachable copy (to be used by children).

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Teacher's portfolio

A book to be used by teachers which contains the methodology, the strategies, resources and other important elements related to the activities developed during the project. Each of the main activities had to focus on five development areas (Language, Math’s, Sports, Arts and Science) and the portfolio contains a sum up/ selection of the strategies used by the teachers in the different participating countries.

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Comenius story

The story was created by all children participating in the project. The work started in Sweden and then each of the other countries continued the story previously written (the story followed the same order of the meetings held during the project). It was finished in Mantiegas, Portugal.
The final product was a story book written in English and illustrated by the participating children.Teachers from Romania have translated the story in Romanian to be more accesible to the children.

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Multilingual picture dictionary

Multilingual picture dictionary, audiovisual type (Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Romanian and English). The words were chosen by the children who also made the drawings for each chosen word.
Three designs: book; interactive file (audio-visual) and a plasticized/detachable copy (to be used by children).

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Comenius Teachers' Book

A book to be used by teachers which contains the methodology, the strategies, resources and other important elements related to the activities developed during the project. Each of the main activities had to focus on five development areas (Language, Math's, Sports, Arts and Science) and the portfolio contains a sum up/ selection of the strategies used by the teachers in the different participating coun

"Gamta mūsų draugas" - tinklalapis

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